Oh, you're reading Cherry? J has all the books. I once asked him to give me one in particular that featured in a filk song, and he gave me one instead that was maybe five books before that in chronological order. I gave up before I even got started *lol*
If I can locate the one, I may join you. A chapter a week sounds doable. If I have to ask him though I will likely be bombarded with TMI on what to read first to understand the universe and yada yada ;-)
nd he gave me one instead that was maybe five books before that in chronological order. I gave up before I even got started *lol*
LOL! I started this one, and there is a lot of backstory that I'm catching up on, definitely, and it's pretty dense. But over on DW we have a couple of people (one reading along) who've read the book before and can shepherd us along, which is proving very valuable!
So, ha, yes, if you can pry just this one book instead of a lecture out of J, please join in! :D (and let me know if you're OK doing so over on DW w/ OpenID or want me to put in the chapter-by-chapter posts here on LJ as well. (I'm happy to comment in 2 places, but most of the discussion is shaping up to be on DW.)
I don't have a DW account any more, and having started the first chapter, I doubt I'll be following that well. *sigh* I'll see if I can make it and open a new account on DW for that purpose only. No promises though.
I am Hamsterwoman on there also, and the Cyteen post is here :)
I'd set it up so that all discussion could go in that post but in different threads. It's generating rather more discussion than I was expecting, though! So we'll see if it ends up making more sense to make additional posts at some frequency if this one becomes completely unmanageable.
ETA: LOL, I see you found it on your own. Excellent! :D
If I can locate the one, I may join you. A chapter a week sounds doable. If I have to ask him though I will likely be bombarded with TMI on what to read first to understand the universe and yada yada ;-)
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LOL! I started this one, and there is a lot of backstory that I'm catching up on, definitely, and it's pretty dense. But over on DW we have a couple of people (one reading along) who've read the book before and can shepherd us along, which is proving very valuable!
So, ha, yes, if you can pry just this one book instead of a lecture out of J, please join in! :D (and let me know if you're OK doing so over on DW w/ OpenID or want me to put in the chapter-by-chapter posts here on LJ as well. (I'm happy to comment in 2 places, but most of the discussion is shaping up to be on DW.)
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It'd be lovely if you could cross-post the weekly chapter posts so I know when and where to look on DW.
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I'd set it up so that all discussion could go in that post but in different threads. It's generating rather more discussion than I was expecting, though! So we'll see if it ends up making more sense to make additional posts at some frequency if this one becomes completely unmanageable.
ETA: LOL, I see you found it on your own. Excellent! :D
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